For Hong Kong, These Are Home Games.

The article stresses that China's Olympic success will have political implications in Hong Kong. Just before Hong Kong's quadrennial legislative elections, China organized a visit in September 2004 to the city by its 50 Olympic gold medalists, fresh off their record medal haul in Athens, Georgia, to generate support for pro-Beijing parties. According to Gordon Mathews of the City University of Hong Kong, the growing intimacy of Hong Kong with China has less to do with budding nationalism than with self-interest.